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Old 11th Jan 2009, 11:34
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Gonzo
 
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I have lost count of the number of times that someone (including me a few times) has got a bollocking from ATC for going past Saturn or Titan or Horka when the green lights merrily carry on straight past it to a red stop bar further down the taxiway. Pretty sure they all have stop bars so please use them.
I'm afraid that to bring up a stop bar at, say, LOKKI, means either someone else somewhere has a green route, or in some cases, the only other way to bring up stop bars at all runway holding area entry points would be to do what we call 'junction clear' the block(s) subsequent to those points. This would mean any a/c in those block(s) would be faced with no greens and lit stop bars, even though they would have been cleared to a runway entry point.
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